I would suggest making the source available to developers for them to use. You will get much more immediate gratification -- if you want to do this through a patch to the source, you are looking at maybe 6 months for it to appear in a release, and another year or more after that until it is widely available enough on devices that apps can use it.
We are also fairly restrictive in accepting these kinds of patches. If every widget that would be useful to some apps was added to the platform, the amount of code there would be *huge* and require tons more work to maintain. Over the last year, for widgets and stuff that doesn't need to be in the framework, we have moved to automatically not accepting them in the framework. They can be in a static library or something else that the apps that need them can use. We'll start consider adding something to the framework if it is being used in more than a handful of the apps that are shipping with the base Android platform. On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:51 PM, nbadal <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm almost completed with a DatePickerPreference that I've built (a > preference widget I was suprised didnt already exist), and would > really like to share this function with every developer. > I know the process for submitting patches to the android open-source > project, but I was wondering how I would go about adding a whole new > feature to android that I have made, or if they even accept them. Is > there any way to go about doing this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
